Casper Van Dien, best known to scifi geeks as “Johnny Rico” from Starship Troopers, has filmed two short PSAs for Childhelp, an anti-child-abuse organization. The weird part is that Van Dien does them in character.
In this first ad, Van Dien in full Starship Troopers regalia talks about child abuse as though he’s describing the aliens his character fought in the movies and without identifying himself. When he describes the "war" we are fighting against "the nastiest creatures in the galaxy — more horrible than any I ever encountered," one realizes both why Van Dien went on to star in two more Starship Troopers movies and that it’s probably not the best thing to compare child abusers to giant bugs since, as this AdCounci ad points out, child abusers sort of look just like everyone else.
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